Godzilla is about to take on an entirearmy of otherworldly creaturesinGodzilla : Martin Luther King Jr. of the Monsters . After that , fighting a large copycat who spend most of his time battling snakes in the hobo camp ( oron Broadway ) seems like a cakewalk , right ? But , according to Godzilla vs. Kong ’s co - writer , who also directed and co - wrote King of the Monsters , we should n’t be writing off King Kong just yet .
In an consultation withBloody Disgusting , Michael Dougherty gossip about the long - awaited fight between Godzilla and King Kong , which isset for 2020 . The crossover has been Warner Bros. ’ plan since 2014 — starting with theGodzilla reboot , and continue withKong : Skull Islandand the forthcoming Godzilla : King of the Monsters subsequence .
Despite the fact that these fabled moving-picture show monster have been around for generations , it ’s only the second time the two of them will combat onscreen ( first metre was back in 1962 , inToho ’s King Kong vs. Godzilla ) . Feels like there ’s a good reason for that : Godzilla is right smart bigger , tougher , and more muscular than King Kong . Come on , the lizard titan can scoot blue fervour out of his face . What does Kong have , apart from a uncanny obsession with blonde women ? Dougherty recognize that the fight is n’t equally jibe , with the betting odds stacked against Kong , comparing it to some Hellenic underdog stories .
“Hey—hey Kong. Hey! Listen to me when I’m talking to you!”Image: Warner Bros.
“ We ’re reckon at an almost David versus Goliath site . Because everyone , the moment you say Godzilla ’s going to fight Kong , your first reaction is ‘ Kong does n’t stand a fortune , ’ ” he suppose . “ You sleep together , it ’s like watch Rocky go up against Ivan Drago . It seems like it ’s unjust — but clearly , this means the underdog might have a few surprises . ”
What are those surprises going to be ? allot to Dougherty , King Kong is “ extremely intelligent , ” with utmost agility and the power to use tools . He also added that the ape will have grow importantly since the effect of Kong : Skull Island — yield how he was fundamentally a teenager in that flick , which took place in the 1970s , and this crossover happens decades later .
“ If you really take the clock time to look at Kong as a character reference , it ’s like , ‘ Okay , in Skull Island he was an teenager , so he was still growing . ’ So who roll in the hay how crowing he is since the seventies when they first meet him ? ” he said .
Of course , that still leaves the closed book of why the snake pit these two are struggle in the first place . Some have theorized that it couldstem from humanstrying to put an goal to Godzilla after the consequence of Godzilla : King of the Monsters , using King Kong to try and bring down the final persist titan . But come on : We all know it ’s just because people like come across giant monsters fight each other , and these two are the tiptop of giant fighting monsters who seem destined to throw off down . Dougherty confirmed as much .
“ It ’s no chance event that Kong was a unmediated aspiration for Godzilla , that the Nipponese filmmaker watch King Kong and were hugely inspired by him , ” he say . “ The hope is that their motivations for fight each other are reasoned , and not contrived . But when you have two extremely hyper - belligerent masculine territorial animals who both believe that they ’re the lawful rulers of an entire species , chance are they ’re run to do more than have good afternoon Camellia sinensis . ”
Godzilla : King of the Monsters debuts May 31 . Godzilla vs. Kong is set to amount out March 13 , 2020 .
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